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To: jjotto
‘The Mesorah’ is the explanation for the text that Moses transmitted from God to succeeding generations. Someone reading the texts from Harvard Law without attending lectures and doing homework doesn’t have the whole story.

The Massorah is called "A Fence to the Scriptures," because it locked all words and letters in their places. It does not contain notes or comments as such, but facts and phenomena. It records the number of times the several letters occur in the various books of the Bible; the number of words, and the middle word; the number of verses, and the middle verse; the number of expressions and combinations of words, &...... APPENDIX 30 of the Companion Bible. The Text was 'fixed' before the Massorites 'fenced the Scriptures' The Text was set in order after the return from Babylon and is described in Neh. 8:8 as well as Ezra 7:6-11. Now we Christians do not always get the full detailed locked in message from the fixed text from the Hebrew. (Or even from the Greek and there have been busy fingers making the Word say and mean things it never meant.)

120 posted on 07/06/2010 7:09:14 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

I’m not sure what’s the point of the copy & paste you provided above (since I can only find it on Xtian websites). Is it since you cannot read/understand hebrew, you do not get the real/full meaning of a passage/text through a Xtian bible?


121 posted on 07/06/2010 9:54:26 PM PDT by papabrody
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To: Just mythoughts

You are describing the Masoretic text, not the Mesorah.

Hint: Torah and Mesorah share the same root word.


126 posted on 07/07/2010 6:41:18 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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